posted by Dave Stangis on August 29, 2007
Each year about this time, I make a trip to the East Coast of the US to meet with key leaders in the Socially Responsible Investment (SRI) industry. I’ve been doing this now for almost a decade – it’s turned into somewhat of a tradition. I’ve also held these meetings on the West Coast and in Europe.
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tagged: CSR, dow jones sustainability index, Intel, investor, shareholder activism, SRI
posted by Dave Stangis on August 26, 2007
Just a short blog post this time. I speak at a lot of conferences on the broad topic of CSR, or environment, supply chain, ethics, etc. A few years ago it got a little too much for one person to try to fairly represent Intel at these external events while still driving CSR programs inside the company.
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tagged: CSR Conferences, Intel, speaking
posted by Perry Gruber on August 22, 2007
Case in point: one of our projects here in the U.S., which I thought had great promise is stuggling, not because of anything Intel did, but because of the real estate dip here in the US and perhaps some other issues I’d only be able to speculate about, which I won’t. The project was touted by its developers as one of the first of its kind: a retirement community specifically designed for Gay, Lesbian and Transgendered people.
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tagged: corporate social responsibility, CSR, healthcare, telemedicine
posted by Revital Bitan on August 19, 2007
I like what Alice Shell wrote in her blog: “In terms of a talent management practice, satisfied employees are productive employees and have high retention rates. Attention to corporate social responsibility is not just good citizenship, it’s good business.”
I strongly believe that our main and most important target audience is our employees. Lately, we have seen increased media awareness of CSR. The general public is also increasingly sensitive and attuned to global CSR issues. Our employees embody both of these trends: They are more aware of the issues and are therefore more sensitive to Intel’s CSR efforts than ever before.
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tagged: CSR, employee engagement, volunteer in the community
posted by Perry Gruber on August 16, 2007
They’re not my words. They are from the Malaysia newspaper, the New Straits Times reporting on a new product jointly launched this week by Siemens Malaysia and Intel Malaysia that’s sure to improve blood supply tracking in Asia. “The product, an RFID tracking system tailored to blood management, is developed based on the input and sharing of the staff at the University Malaya Medical Center, National Blood Bank and Penang Adventist hospital.” You can read about it here as well as see a really cute picture of a really cute couple who are benefiting from the solution and are just really cute.
posted by Gary Niekerk on August 13, 2007
We figure one the most effective ways to be an evangelist for excellence in corporate responsibility is to honor and recognize those companies and organizations that are doing outstanding work in this area. Intel and the Asian Institute of Management (AIM) recently teamed up to launch a Corporate Responsibility Award that honors organizations for excellent CSR projects in one or more of the following areas: Education, Community Involvement; Environmental Stewardship; and Poverty Alleviation through providing innovative use of information computer technology.
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tagged: Asia CSR, corporate social responsibility, CSR awards, CSR Forum
posted by Gary Niekerk on August 10, 2007
My colleague Todd Brady, Intel’s Corporate Environmental manager did a good job of summarizing some of Intel’s latest efforts to reduce the impact of our products and operations on the environment. Listen to the pod cast.
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tagged: environmental, green, lead-free, podcast, technology
posted by Dave Stangis on August 09, 2007
I knew a long ago I would never make it as a newspaper editor. I just can’t come up with headlines like this - I’ve never been able to. This one grabbed my attention this morning. I noticed it in both the Asian and European editions of the Wall Street Journal. It is an opinion piece regarding a new regulation in Indonesia (paragraph 74) that mandates CSR for companies with certain environmental impacts. You can read the short opinion piece here.
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tagged: CSR, GRI, Indonesia, ISO26000, regulation, WSJ
posted by Perry Gruber on August 06, 2007
Sometimes Community Solutions (ComSol) projects are so good we have to be careful we don’t get in trouble because of their sensitivities… Take our work wrapping up in an Israeli hospice center as an example. The project developed from personal experience of our colleague there who spent long days and nights alongside her terminally-ill relative in hospice care….
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